Purpose This study investigated how listeners' native language affects their weighting of
acoustic cues (such as vowel quality, pitch, duration, and intensity) in the perception of …

This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their
childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing …

Not all languages have stress and not all languages that do have stress are alike. English is
a lexical stress language, which means that in any English word with more than one …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Although vowel quality is an important cue to the perception of English lexical stress, few
studies have examined the role this cue plays for non-native speakers. Previous research …

Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough
introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP). The study of SLP seeks to …

Issues of intelligibility may arise amongst English learners when acquiring new words and
phrases in North American academic settings, perhaps in part due to limited linguistic data …

The current study investigates the effects of more explicit versus more implicit corrective
feedback on beginner Mandarin learners' perception and production of Mandarin tones. The …

English speakers' perception of word-stress in Spanish was compared to that of native
Spanish controls. All participants performed a word-stress detection task in Spanish …

Speech and music are highly redundant communication systems, with multiple acoustic
cues signaling the existence of perceptual categories. This redundancy makes these …